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Breaking Into Cybersecurity

Technology spending is booming in one area—protecting against hacking. Three stocks that could climb nicely.

Terrorism is no longer the biggest security threat facing our nation. Intelligence officials now put a more nebulous threat at the top of the list: Cyberattacks waged by anonymous hackers around the world with various motives, sometimes backed by nation-states.

Hackers are pilfering $250 billion a year in intellectual property—weapon designs and source code, sure, but also consumer lists, takeover proposals, and cosmetics formulas—in what top U.S. cyberfighter and director of the National Security Agency Gen. Keith...